M&S green cord dress - any thoughts?

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Hi, thinking of this - I’m 5 ft 4 and big boobs w small waist - usually a 10 or 12. It’s online only - do you think it would be very voluminous? And what’s the quality like w Nobody’s Child? https://www.marksandspencer.com/cord-v-neck-button-through-midaxi-tea-dress/p/clp22581426#intid=pid_pg1pip48g2r18c2|prodflag_New

It makes me sad that so many of these comments refer to the dress needing to be flattering. Why do clothes need to be flattering? Why is this the priority? They really don’t have to be. Honestly. The colour, the style, what you like etc is what matters. And OP I adore this dress it’s so cool. Please buy it and enjoy wearing it.

I’ve just seen a TikTok from someone with this dress. Think it looks nice on her. However she was saying a male colleague came up to her at work and said the dress made her look like a “ridiculous Santa”. 🤷‍♀️

Btw Thought have a near identical dress, also in black and navy. Maybe slight,y less volume?

And ? I mean so what? He's an ill mannered idiot.

Everyone’s probably got a different sense of what flattering is but we can all look very different according to what clothes we wear as every garment has a particular body shape implied by the design. I spend much of my time in trousers and jumpers that I’m sure look ok but would quite like a dress that doesn’t look like it was designed for someone else.

All I can think is I can make that for way less and fit it better.

Well yes. I’d agree. Obviously.

I think it's because it's meant to be a dressy dress, not just a functional, something to keep you warm and decent. What's the point of all the detail otherwise?

Just my opinion, but I think that is a very difficult dress length to pull off at your height. I'm 5 ft 7 and I think even that's too short for this dress length.

But it is a dressy dress. I don't think PooHeads was talking about functionality.

I wore this dress last week to a small drinks reception/ awards do. I expect most posters on here will hate it with a passion yet on the night it got loads of compliments . I'd barely got my coat off before the first one and these weren't friends or even people I know, so no obligation to say anything.

Big sleeved dress

I hope the OP at least tries her dress

Because some of us like to look nice, not necessarily for others.
Because wearing a dress that makes me look as wide as I am tall would make me feel strange
I wear things that I like wearing. The big puffy sleeves and width, and the low V neck aren't what I like.

I have dresses that are bright and cheerful, and I have dresses that I feel like $1m dollars in, and something unflattering wouldn't. Neither the shape or colour of it would suit me.

I think it's got too much material. It had the potential to be stunning but it's fallen short.

Depends what you mean by "look nice" or "make you feel like $1 million dollars"

I like dramatic dresses.

So many posters determined that the OP shouldn't even give it a chance - she can always return it if she doesn't like it.

I prefer to not look like a comedy or tragedy

Some of us don't have much choice 😜

I've gone and ordered the plum velvet dress I posted earlier, as a Xmas treat for myself. However!!! I have ordered it in an "aspirational" size 🥳 Time will tell!

But it is a dressy dress. I don't think PooHeads was talking about functionality

I know it's a dressy dress which is why I'm saying flattering comes into it. Flattering doesn't mean form fitting, it means it's a style that suits your body type.
I would find the dress unflattering, you find that shape flattering.

I'm not interested in whether it's "flattering" - whatever that even means.

I'm interested in why so many posters are so keen to talk the OP out of even trying it. She's got nothing to lose giving it a go.

If you like it, try it!
Personally I think it will be a dress that 'wears you' at your height but you don't know until you try it on.

I've gone and ordered the plum velvet dress I posted earlier, as a Xmas treat for myself. However!!! I have ordered it in an "aspirational" size 🥳 Time will tell!

The plum dress is beautiful! I'd consider it myself if I needed a new dress.

There are some dresses early Alexander Macqueen, and other designers at their peak, when clothes are the star (however a designer allows clothes and wearer to collaborate).

To my mind, that dress is no star. It does not have the qualities for a solo performance on an overwhelmed wearer

Strictly speaking it's not an M&S dress, it's a Nobody's Child dress.
I love it, though the big sleeves and the length would drown me.

If you like it, try it!
Personally I think it will be a dress that 'wears you' at your height but you don't know until you try it on.

This, this, this !

we can speculate all day but you need to try it!

I love the Maya dresses, wore one at the weekend and was congratulated on being pregnant 😶. Said I wasn't and he said, oh it's the dress, makes you look pregnant. 😶😶😑.

I like the colour but otherwise it is hideous. It doesn't flatter the model in my view and I assume she is fairly tall. I'm about 5ft 3in and am very wary of loose clothing - too much of it makes me look like a child dressing up in her mother's clothing. Loose sleeves can work on me if the rest of the dress is more fitted, for example. But I do care what I look like - not out of vanity but I need to feel good about myself in what I wear.

If you like the colour and / or fabric, can you look for another style?

I couldn't wear something that wasn't flattering in some way. It would make me miserable, so why would I? Actually it would be returned or left in the wardrobe.